> You came here from news.ycombinator.com. Your browser told us the address of the page you were reading before this one. Every link you follow tells the destination where you were. The page you just left knows you left. This page knows where you came from. Neither was asked.
I thought this didn't work anymore and browsers left out the referer in the case of https, is that not so then?
I believe you only lose the referer header when switching between http and https.